Bowser standing atop the Koopa Chase
The Koopa Chase[1] is a vehicle owned by Bowser, which makes its first appearance in Super Mario 3D World. It is a purple muscle car with gold plating, spikes on the top, and hubcaps, with a Bowser hood ornament at the front. The car initially moves slow, but moves faster and faster when damaged, and when the player catches up with it. The car is also able to jump without the driver's input.
With the exception of World Bowser-Castle: The Great Tower of Bowser Land, the Koopa Chase is Bowser's main weapon and mode of transportation in the game. It first appears in World 1-Castle: Bowser's Highway Showdown, where Bowser rides it for the duration of his boss fight. Bowser shoots fireballs and tosses Kick Bombs from the car to attack the player, which could be kicked back to damage the car. After enough hits, the Koopa Chase is destroyed and Bowser is blasted away.
The car appears as the Koopa Chase Lv2[2] in World Castle-Castle: Bowser's Lava Lake Keep, where it gets a visual upgrade, with a mostly blue color scheme and neon features. The strategy to defeat it is unchanged and it is again wrecked. The Koopa Chase Lv2 makes a reappearance in the beginning of The Great Tower of Bowser Land, in its destroyed state. Players can hit it, but nothing happens other than the car making noise. The car mostly makes beep noises, but a soundclip of Bowser's laugh and some soundclips from Super Mario World can be heard after some hits.[3]
Battle
Cat Mario kicking a bomb at Bowser
The Koopa Chase appears as the boss of World 1. The battlefield consists of a long highway, which the Koopa Chase drives along, with the player pursuing it. Bowser will toss Kick Bombs and that must be hit back at him nine times (three if they are knocked back with the Cat form's scratch attack, the Tanooki form's tail attack, or rolled into); players can also defeat him with 27 hits from the Boomerang form's boomerangs or 45 hits from the Fire form's fireballs. As Bowser takes damage, he will breathe more fireballs and throw less Kick Bombs. The first stretch of the highway is very basic. The only things of note is a small rise that the Koopa Chase and player must jump to and a small ditch cut through the road. At the end of this stretch, Bowser ramps up to the next section of the highway. The player can follow via a Warp Box dropped by Bowser. The next section has two short walls on the sides that the Koopa Chase rides on. Between the walls, a Goomba Tower and a Goomba carrying a Super Bell can be found. After this is a small jump, followed by a big jump to the next section. The next section is very simple, with the only thing of note being a small jump. This section repeats itself for the remainder of the battle. After being hit enough times, the Koopa Chase crashes away breaking the road in the process. Bowser realizes that there is nothing supporting him and falls down to the wreckage. The Koopa Chase explodes when he lands and he is blasted away. The Warp Box to the Goal Pole then appears along with some coins.
The Koopa Chase Lv2 is battled at Bowser's Lava Lake Keep, the final level of World Castle. In this battle, Bowser does not throw as many Kick Bombs and breathes more fireballs. Some of the Kick Bombs he throws will already be activated and will harm the player if touched. The layout of the highway is also more hazardous. In the first section, there will be retractable spikes in different spots throughout the road, as well as two pits with lava geysers. The next area is a large grated bridge. Lava geysers may spew up here. After a little bit, the bridge splits into two sides, just close enough together for the Koopa Chase Lv2 to be supported by both sides. The bridge soon ends and there is another jump to the next section. This is a repeating stretch with several vertical rows of spikes that retract in rapid succession.
Gallery
Trivia
References
Super Mario 3D World / Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury / Bowser's Fury
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Playable characters
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Mario • Luigi1,2 • Peach1,2 • Toad1,2 • Rosalina1,2 • Captain Toad1,2 • Bowser Jr.3 • Hint Toad2 • Banktoad2 • Yellow Toad2
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Non-playable characters
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Kittens3 • Mii1 • Neko Parent3 • Plessie • Rabbits (Mega Rabbits) • Sprixie Princesses1,2 • Sprixies1,2 • Toads • Toadette3
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Worlds1,2
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Sprixie Kingdom • World 1 • World 2 • World 3 • World 4 • World 5 • World 6 • World Castle • World Bowser • World Star • World Mushroom • World Flower • World Crown
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Lake Lapcat locations3
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Fur Step Island • Scamper Shores • Pounce Bounce Isle • Fort Flaptrap • Slipskate Slope • Clawswipe Colosseum • Trickity Tower • Crisp Climb Castle • Risky Whisker Island • Pipe Path Tower • Roiling Roller Isle • Mount Magmeow • Lucky Isle
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Bosses
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Bowser (Meowser1,2 · Fury Bowser3 · Giant Bowser3) • Boom Boom • Pom Pom • Hisstocrat1,2 • Boss Brolder1,2 • King Ka-thunk1,2 • Prince Bully • Motley Bossblob1,2
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Items and objects
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+ Clock1,2 • ? Block • 1-Up Mushroom1,2 • Arrow platform1,2 • Arrow Sign • Assist Block1,2 • Baseball • Beep Block1,2 • Big Block1,2 • Blue Coin • Brick Block • Board1,2 • Bomb • Boomerang Flower • Cage3 • Cannon Box1,2 • Cat Shine3 • Cat Shine Shard3 • Cat Wheel • Chain-Link • Character Switch1,2 • Checkpoint Flag1,2 • Clear Pipe • Clear Pipe Cannon • Cloud Cannon • Cloud Lift • Cog1,2 • Coin • Coin Block • Coin Box • Coin pile • Color Panel1,2 • Crate • Crystal Block1,2 • Dark1,2 • Dash Panel • Double Cherry • Elevator1,2 • Fire Flower • Fling Pole3 • Floating couch1,2 • Flower1,2 • Fluff1,2 • Fury Block3 • Fury Sun3 • Giga Bell3 • Goal Pole1,2 • Gold Ring • Goomba Mask1,2 • Gong1,2 • Graffiti3 • Green Coin1,2 • Green Star1,2 • Green Star Ring1,2 • Ground-Pound Switch3 • Grumblump1,2 • Hexagon1,2 • Hidden Block • Ice Skate • Illusion1,2 • Invincibility Bell2,3 • Invincibility Leaf • Item storage • Jump Panel • Key Coin • Kick Bomb • Lift1,2 • Light Box1,2 • Lighthouse3 • Lucky Bell • Mega ? Block • Mega Mushroom1,2 • Multi-Vator1,2 • Mushroom Trampoline • Mystery Box1,2 • Plessie Medal3 • P Panel1,2 • P Switch1,2 • Pixel Luigi1, 2 • Potted Piranha Plant • POW Block • Propeller Box • Propeller Platform1 • Red-Blue Panel • Red Coin1,2 • Red POW Block1,2 • Red Ring1,2 • Rising pillar1,2 • Rock Block1,2 • Rotating Panel1,2 • Seagull3 • Searchlight1,2 • Shelf1,2 • Slamming block1,2 • Sliding door1,2 • Slot Block1,2 • Small birds1,2 • Snowball • Springboard1,2 • Stamp1,2 • Super Star • Super Bell • Super Jump Panel3 • Super Leaf • Super Mushroom • Switch Block1,2 • Switch Panel1,2 • Switchboard • Timer Gate3 • Touchstone1,2 • Trapeze1,2 • Tree • Turning Floor • Warp Box1,2 • Warp Box (With Key)1,2 • Warp Pipe • World Warp Pipe1, 2 • Zipline lift1,2
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Moves
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Crawl • Crouch • Crouch Jump • Dash • Dive2,3 • Ground Pound • Ground Pound Jump2,3 • Jump • Long Jump • Roll • Shell dash • Side Somersault • Slide • Spin Jump • Swim • Synchro Ground-Pound1,2 • Wall Jump
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Forms
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Small Mario • Super Mario • Fire Mario • Cat Mario (Lucky Cat Mario · Giga Cat Mario3 · White Cat Mario2,3) • Double Mario • Tanooki Mario (White Tanooki Mario) • Boomerang Mario • Mega Mario • Invincible Mario
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Enemies and obstacles
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Ant Trooper1,2 • Baddie Box1,2 • Banzai Bill1,2 • Banzai Bill Cannon1,2 • Beach Koopa • Biddybud • Big Boo1,2 • Big Ant Trooper1,2 • Big Galoomba1,2 • Bill Blaster • Blockstepper • Blooper1,2 • Blurker1,2 • Bob-omb • Boo1,2 • Boomerang Bro • Brolder1,2 • Bullet Bill • Bully • Cannon1,2 • Cannonball1,2 • Cat Banzai Bill1,2 • Cat Bullet Bill • Cat Goomba1,2 • Chargin' Chuck1,2 • Charvaargh1,2 • Cheep Cheep • Coin Coffer • Conkdor • Disaster Neko3 • Falling spike3 • Fire Bar1,2 • Fire Bro • Fire Piranha Plant • Fizzlit1,2 • Flopter • Fury Shadow3 • Fuzzler • Fuzzy • Fuzzy Horde1,2 • Galoomba1,2 • Goomba • Goomba Tower • Hammer Bro • Hop-Chop1,2 • Horned Ant Trooper1,2 • Innertube Goomba • Ka-thunk1,2 • Koopa Troopa • Lava Bubble1,2 • Madpole1,2 • Magikoopa • Mega Piranha Plant • Mini Goomba1,2 • Octoomba1,2 • Para-Biddybud • Parabones1,2 • Peepa1,2 • Piranha Creeper • Piranha Plant • Porcupuffer1,2 • Rammerhead • Ring Burner1,2 • Skating Goomba • Skipsqueak • Snow Pokey • Spike • Spike ball1,2 • Spike Block1,2 • Spike Trap • Spiked roller • Spiny1,2 • Spiny Skipsqueak1,2 • Splorch1,2 • Splotchy goop3 • Splounder • Stingby • Thwomp1,2 • Ty-foo1,2 • Walleye1,2
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Miscellaneous
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Captain Toad's Adventures1,2 • Enemy Battles1,2 • Mystery House1,2 • Luigi Bros.1,2 • Luigi sightings1,2 • Sprixie House1,2 • Lucky House1,2 • Snapshot Mode2,3 • Stamps
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Further info
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Cat Shine names3 • Completion (Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury) • Gallery (Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury · Bowser's Fury) • Glitches (Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury) • Media (Bowser's Fury) • Pre-release and unused content • Playable characters' statistics (Bowser's Fury) • Staff (Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury) • Super Mario 3D World Original Soundtrack
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